Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.

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1 In the immediate post-war years the special relationship almost collapsed .
2 Thus , in the immediate post-war years the WEA came under considerable pressure from two more powerful providers and doubts were raised about its future as a recognised Responsible Body — an issue which was closely addressed by the Ashby Committee in 1953 , and again raised by the Russell Committee some twenty years later .
3 In the five interesting events the detectors of UAI show a track in the central detector leading to a single cell in the electromagnetic calorimeter , which picks up a lot of energy .
4 In the great continental monarchies the influence of the ruler over foreign affairs was still powerful and sometimes decisive .
5 Fifteen candidates secured 139,517 votes , four-fifths of them in Scotland , and in the four successful contests the official Labour candidates forfeited their deposits .
6 In the richer agricultural regions the dues owed to the Grand Prince , or to lay and ecclesiastical landowners , gradually began to be converted from payment in kind to money rents .
7 What has to be explained is why in the long-term stagnant economies the innovators do not turn their hands to productive capital accumulation ( or , for that matter , to the mobilisation of political forces , though this would not be Baran 's argument ) .
8 In the early post-war years the consolidation of Soviet power in Eastern Europe stimulated fears of communist expansion and generated support , in the United States , for the maintenance of a high level of military preparedness .
9 In practice , however , in the principal local authorities the political party organisations will oversee this process and manage their candidates ' election campaigns .
10 Between 1955 and 1970 the capital stock in US manufacturing rose by 74 per cent ; in the major European countries the rise was 115 per cent , and in Japan it was some 500 per cent .
11 In the above excluded instances the MAS team will remain an important member of the client 's team , acting as a catalyst/manager of the process , but the lead role as far as the public are concerned would fall to either a merchant bank or stockbroker with suitable experience in the public arena .
12 My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats .
13 In the late Middle Ages the West Riding of Yorkshire , particularly the Leeds-Bradford area , emerged as a major centre of the woollen textile industry , as it was to remain , overtaking York as the major centre of the cloth trade in the North ( 82 , p.152 ) .
14 In the rural electoral colleges the Cpp had 1938 votes and all others 780 votes .
15 In the contemporary social sciences the term ‘ elite ’ is now generally applied to functional or occupational groups which have high status in a society , for whatever reason ( Bottomore , 1964 , p. 14 ) .
16 Apparently in the good old days the rule was that all the uniforms got cleaned every six months , whether they needed it or not .
17 Whatever influence Le Fanu 's works may have had on Stoker , the young Dublin boy must have known that in the prevalent Celtic legends the graves open all over the Irish countyside on All Souls ’ Night and the dead walk across the fields — and Irving 's performances and demeanour sealed the future of his fictional imagination .
18 In the worst urban examples the figure was as low as 5 per cent .
19 There 's 42 miles of railway track in the 15 square miles the base covers .
20 In the larger American stations the women 's waiting-room sometimes had a ‘ matron ’ available to help women with their children or those fatigued by their journey .
21 In the seven major countries the only periods of majority left governments between 1950 and 1973 were those of Wilson in the United Kingdom ( 1964–70 ) and Brandt in Germany ( 1970–3 ) , yet spending on welfare rose under Macmillan , Adenauer , de Gaulle , under both Nixon and Kennedy , as well as under a succession of Italian and to some extent even Japanese prime ministers of the right .
22 In the 36 gubernatorial contests the Democrats won 19 , the Republicans 14 and independents two .
23 The room has remained untouched , its files and papers in the same neat piles the actor had left them in .
24 In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen …
25 The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over .
26 It is impossible to convey to an outsider in a few short words the hothouse emotional atmosphere of such an establishment , with its all-too-conscientiously suppressed sexuality , and the consequent hysteria , or just plain silliness .
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